15th Annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival

​Join us at our 15th Annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival, where over 500 members of the NYU startup community will come together to connect, collaborate, and celebrate entrepreneurs across the University. Grow your startup knowledge and make lasting connections! The Festival is co-hosted by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and the NYU Leslie Entrepreneurial Institute.

​The NYU Entrepreneurs Festival will be held at the Kimmel Center in the Rosenthal Pavilion on the 10th floor on Friday, Oct 9th.

​AGENDA:

​1 - 1:30 PM: Doors Open & Registration

​1:30 - 1:45 PM: Welcome & Opening Remarks w/ Darren Yee (Tandon '16), Venture Principal of the Leslie Entrepreneurial Institute & Shay Gaskins (SPS '19 & Stern '27), Associate Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship

​1:45 - 2:35: Keynote: Avante Price (Stern), Co-Founder & CEO of Posh, Moderated by: Mir Hwang (CAS '19), Founder of GigFinesse

• ​Posh: Social platform for discovering and hosting real-life experiences, from club nights to music festivals. Built to give event creators the branding, marketing, and ticketing tools they couldn't find anywhere else. GigFinesse: Music tech platform that connects artists with venues for live shows, cutting out middlemen and manual booking.

​2:40 - 3:25 PM: Starting a Startup while in School Panel:

• ​Panelists are Bakhtawer Baloch, (SPS '26), Founder of Clairdoc, Corinne Camay (Stern '27), Founder of Diagrm, Christian Herren (Courant/Stern '26), Founder of Agora, Lara Pinar (Tandon '27), Founder of Jointly Medical

• ​Moderated by: Nyamitse-Calvin Mahinda (Tandon '23), Founder of Vital Audio

​3:25 - 4:05 PM: Networking Break

​4:05 - 5:20 PM: Demo Day with the following teams:

• ​Agora: Agentic tool for professional clothing resellers, automate 60% of listing workflows, so they can move inventory to market in seconds instead of sitting unlisted, enabling them to scale their businesses.

  • ​Team: Christian Herren (Courant/Stern ‘26) & Tomer Ben Yaakov (Courant/Stern ‘26)

• ​Altrovia: Study design intelligence platform with regulatory precedent, amendment prediction, and benchmarking for clinical development leads at small/mid-sized pharma companies. It minimizes costly amendments (30% of budget) at a fraction of CRO costs.

  • ​Team: Christos Zoukos (Stern '25), Nicholas Patas (Abu Dhabi, '21) & Georgia Lytra

• ​Binder: Commercial insurance brokers reach out to 100 prospects per week, but don't have time to do the research, so every call is shot in the dark. Binder automates the research, so brokers land more clients and earn more commissions.

  • ​Team: Yannick Bierens (Courant/Stern ‘25)

• ​Cargon AI: Small and mid-size privately owned trucking fleet owners (20 to 200 trucks) lose revenue and spend up to 21 days per hire on DOT-mandated pre-hire screening. Cargon AI automates the full DOT pre-hire process with voice agents screening candidates, capturing consent, verifying past employment in 1 to 2 days, cutting cost-per-hire and time-to-seat.

  • ​Team: Khon Sultan (Tandon ‘26), Azimkhon Sultankhodjaev & Yongnuo Liang

• ​Clairdoc: AI revenue layer integrated into EHR workflows. Clairdoc validates claims, documentation, and payer rules in real time, reducing denials and driving measurable revenue growth without altering the EHR.

  • ​Team: Bakhtawer Baloch (SPS '26), Suleman Baloch & Momal Baloch

• ​Concordare Trials: Standardizing clinical trial infrastructure by prioritizing interoperable systems over fragmented tools. It improves efficiency and consistency in trial execution, making research more scalable and reliable.

  • ​Team: Zach Sawaged (GSAS '20), Nathan Maher

• ​Cortile: AI verification layer for vendor security reviewers at regional  health systems — it runs the repetitive checks and flags gaps, so reviewers focus on the judgment calls only they can make.

  • ​Team: Nik King Fredel (SPS ‘26) & Owen Rice

• ​Diagrm: an AI and cloud architecture intelligence platform for engineering teams that improves reliability, security, and cost efficiency by continuously analyzing visual system designs and reconciling them with authoritative infrastructure data.

  • ​Team: Javier Navarro Machuca (Stern '27), Corinne Camay (Stern '27), George Gil (Stern '27), Joshua Glasman

• ​Jointly Medical: The team’s LOTIS wearable optical imaging system allows rheumatologists and clinical trial sponsors to predict Lupus treatment efficacy weeks earlier by objectively measuring functional joint hemodynamics.

  • ​Team: Ameen Bardien (Tandon '26), Lara Pinar (Tandon '27)

• ​MilkShaker: Hands-free wearable massager for breastfeeding mothers to treat mastitis, clogged ducts, and low milk supply. These painful and often recurring challenges affect 90% of moms, disproportionately harming working mothers and those without access to specialized postpartum care.

  • ​Team: Xiyan Zhu (Stern ‘27), Valentina Marini Fichera & Elise Yang

• ​Nappr: Converting unused daytime hotel inventory into short stays that allow travelers and workers to rest during the day. The service offers on-demand bookings ranging from a few hours to half-day use.

  • ​Team: Jared Lerner (Stern ‘13), Jeff Nguyen

​5:25 - 5:35 PM: Mentor of the Year Award

• ​Presented to Dan Kantor (Tisch ITP '05)

​5:35 - 5:45 PM: Max Stenbeck Founder of the Year Award

​5:45 - 5:55 PM: Best Pitch Announcement & Closing Remarks

​6:00 PM: Event ends

​The NYU Leslie Entrepreneurial Institute provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations for events and services should be submitted at least two weeks before the date of the accommodation need. Please email entrepreneur@nyu.edu for assistance.